# Udayagiri Jaina Cave Inscription of the Time of Kumāragupta I

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Udayagiri cave inscription, the year 106

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00060

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00060.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ namaḥ siddhebhyaḥ

1. Indravajrā

śrī-saṁyutānāṁ guṇa-toyadhīnāṁ
gupt-ānvayānāṁ nr̥pa-sattamānāṁ
⟨2⟩ rājye kulasyābhivivarddhamāne
ṣaḍbhir yyute varṣa-śate tha māse

2. Rucirā

su-kārttike bahula-dine tha paṁca(m)e
⟨3⟩ (gu)hā-mukhe sphaṭa-vikaṭotkaṭām imāṁ
jita-dviṣo jina-vara-pārśva-samjñikāṁ
jinākr̥tiṁ śama-damavān a⟨4⟩cīkaraT

3. Indravajrā

ācāryya-bhadrānvaya-bhūṣaṇasya
śiṣyo hy asāv āryya-kulodgatasya
Acāryya-gośa⟨5⟩(rmma)-munes sutas tu
padmāvatāv aśvapater bbhaṭasya

4. Vaṁśastha

parair ajeyasya ripughna-māninas
sa saṅghi⟨6⟩lasyety abhiviśruto bhuvi
sva-saṁjñayā śaṅkara-nāma-śabdito
vidhāna-yuktaṁ yati-mā⟨7⟩rggam āsthitaḥ

5. Upendravajrā

sa Uttarāṇāṁ sadr̥śe kurūṇāṁ
Udag-diśā-deśa-vare prasūtaḥ
⟨8⟩ kṣayāya karmmāri-gaṇasya dhīmāN
yad atra puṇyaṁ tad apāsasarjja

## Bibliography

First reported (with eye copy, transliteration and translation by Raja
Shivprasad Sitar-e-Hind) in Cunningham 1880, pp. 53–54. Edited in
Hultzsch 1882, re-edited in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi
2001, p. 22 (No. 8). Discussed in Garde 1924, pp. 10–11.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00060). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and
their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 61.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. 1927–1936. A list of the inscriptions
of northern India in Brahmi and its derivative scripts, from about 200
A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological
Survey of India, volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey
of India. [URL]. Item 1265.

Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. 1983. Imperial Gupta Epigraphs
(गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता)
10, pt. 1 / 2. Varanasi: Books Asia, Distributed by Prithvi Prakashan.
Item 20.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 142-144.